Incorrect. That's like saying your problem with O.J. Simpson is that he can get away with murder and you can't. Your problem is really that he shouldn't (commit murder in O.J.'s case, be a grandstanding ass in Raymond's); you don't want to in the first place.
Re:Meta-commentary: "Gorgeous" really relevant?
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A backhanded compliment, implying that a woman's beauty is in any way relevant to the content of her writing. If you can't see why this is a putdown, then there's really no hope for the Slashdot demographic.
They obviously based it on Google Maps, but from what I can tell in five minutes of screwing around with it, they improved it significantly in the process. This is laudable, and distinct from, say, Microsoft cobbling together a ghastly sham of someone else's stellar product, or Gnome's or KDE's bumbling attempts to rip off the latest Mac features that never end up working quite as well as the original.
Stealing someone's ideas to make them better, and to make a positive dent in the world, isn't necessarily bad. What's bad is mindless, uninspired copying that results in spiced shit warmed over.
You forget that as much as business in America (and other NATO countries) depends on Chinese manufacturing, so too does Chinese industry depend on our management, our well-developed and intricate financial institutions, and not least our wealthy markets. Cutting off trade with China in wartime would fuck everybody involved, Chinese and American alike, which is probably the best guarantee we have that we're not going to war anytime soon.
But in what context would you, a Slashdot reader and (presumably) seasoned computer user, actually search for the term "Linux" alone? For the kind of person who would enter a search term like "Linux"--someone without a clue about computers, for example--maybe the Wikipedia entry is, indeed, the most appropriate result. And ZDNet might be as good a place as any, for the non-tech savvy, to start learning about this "Linux" thing.
These comparisons are meaningless if you just blindly submit queries you'd never do in real life, with preconceived expectations of what you'd find useful. The only way to find out which search engine works better is real-world experience. I don't know about you, but I'm willing to give Ask.com a shot for the rest of the day.
I still don't see how providing a limited service for Chinese citizens is worse than providing them no service at all. The first step to democratic reform has to be to show Chinese citizens (and politicians!) the relative vibrancy of politics and freedom of speech in the outside world, and it's ridiculous to think Google could help spread news and information by giving them the finger instead.
Don't forget 14 countries, including Germany and France, have laws of their own forcing Google et al. to censor search results presented within their borders. But perhaps this is the wrong place for this debate.
I know it's a matter of taste and personal preference, but I don't want two buttons on my trackpad. When working on PC laptops, I always get slightly pissed off--usually not even pissed off enough to notice I'm pissed off, more like annoyed the way a cold sore on the inside of your lip tugs at your subconscious--that I always have to think before pressing the button to make sure it's a left- or a right-click, depending. That shit gets old real fast.
A capacitive sensor under the button that could tell the OS which side you clicked, if you set the appropriate system preference, would be a great way to make this behavior configurable, I think.
Regarding the iPhone ad, any real Mac user would immediately spot the egregious misuse of Apple Garamond, which sticks out like a dingleberry in this day and age of Myriad. A clear fake.
Re:Death of Mac OS predicted, pictures at 11
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Dude, I don't think anyone (intelligent) is (seriously) predicting a future for Apple in Windows.
I didn't know anyone used Bluetooth who wasn't also a Mac user. Frankly, I'm not sure why you'd want to subject yourself to the misery of trying to get it to work on anything else.
Personally? I'm looking forward to syncing my address book and calendar faster--maybe continual, incremental updates, though I'm not sure why that can't already be done?--uploading snapshots, audio recordings, and videos faster, and maybe some more useful remote control features. And, of course, Internet access at something above "pokey" speed. I hear T-Mo's rolling out high-speed wireless here in New York...
Could this be related to the fact that Germany requires Google to block certain sites (Nazi memorabilia, Holocaust denial, anti-Israel material) from appearing in the search results?
Human beings do nothing outside a very specific environment tailored to their needs, where temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air, gravity, radiation, &c., all lie within specific bounds. How is this different from a virus needing an environment that includes cellular structures in order to replicate?
With this most recent string of posts, you've gone from mere annoyance to outright pain in the ass on account of lunacy. If you actually lived in media-saturated New York, you'd not only be familiar with these conspiracy theories, you'd also be wise to the debunkings, the rebuttals of the debunkings, and the rebuttals to those rebuttals. In short, everyone here is sick and tired of flyover-state morons in the mold of the Michigan Militia coming up and spreading stupidities, like yours, that are better explained with a little bit of reasonable thought and a little more of knowing the actors involved personally. You little twerp. You fucking shitbag. I'm glad to see you haven't been back in a few days. Hopefully your account's locked out permanently so the rest of us no longer have to put up with your inane first posts.
I dunno, but I can't read them either. Maybe we got downmodded too often.
Re:Not until the moon dust problem is solved.
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"I thinks that they mean Micron... but they are morons for not using the right abbriviation."
No, I think Slashdot is "morons" for not letting you paste in the right abbreviation (which looks like, but isn't, "um"). Why, oh why, is Slashcode stuck in the 1990s?
Honestly, MySpace is no worse than Friendster or the Facebook would be if those sites allowed you the range and freedom of expression MySpace does with HTML tags and embedded objects. Yes, you can take that freedom and use it to shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also build profiles of astonishing beauty and elegance. I think it's pretty cool--I just wish more sites let the user hack around with them like that.
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Incorrect. That's like saying your problem with O.J. Simpson is that he can get away with murder and you can't. Your problem is really that he shouldn't (commit murder in O.J.'s case, be a grandstanding ass in Raymond's); you don't want to in the first place.
That was you? Asshole.
Yeah. Most new Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson phones support AAC playback. I don't know about any others; haven't looked.
Oh please, you're just gonna modbomb the first one to reply. Nobody's dumb enough to fall for that.
Why do you think I've kept it all this time? :-)
A backhanded compliment, implying that a woman's beauty is in any way relevant to the content of her writing. If you can't see why this is a putdown, then there's really no hope for the Slashdot demographic.
They obviously based it on Google Maps, but from what I can tell in five minutes of screwing around with it, they improved it significantly in the process. This is laudable, and distinct from, say, Microsoft cobbling together a ghastly sham of someone else's stellar product, or Gnome's or KDE's bumbling attempts to rip off the latest Mac features that never end up working quite as well as the original.
Stealing someone's ideas to make them better, and to make a positive dent in the world, isn't necessarily bad. What's bad is mindless, uninspired copying that results in spiced shit warmed over.
What kind of airborne object goes vroom?
You forget that as much as business in America (and other NATO countries) depends on Chinese manufacturing, so too does Chinese industry depend on our management, our well-developed and intricate financial institutions, and not least our wealthy markets. Cutting off trade with China in wartime would fuck everybody involved, Chinese and American alike, which is probably the best guarantee we have that we're not going to war anytime soon.
But in what context would you, a Slashdot reader and (presumably) seasoned computer user, actually search for the term "Linux" alone? For the kind of person who would enter a search term like "Linux"--someone without a clue about computers, for example--maybe the Wikipedia entry is, indeed, the most appropriate result. And ZDNet might be as good a place as any, for the non-tech savvy, to start learning about this "Linux" thing.
These comparisons are meaningless if you just blindly submit queries you'd never do in real life, with preconceived expectations of what you'd find useful. The only way to find out which search engine works better is real-world experience. I don't know about you, but I'm willing to give Ask.com a shot for the rest of the day.
I still don't see how providing a limited service for Chinese citizens is worse than providing them no service at all. The first step to democratic reform has to be to show Chinese citizens (and politicians!) the relative vibrancy of politics and freedom of speech in the outside world, and it's ridiculous to think Google could help spread news and information by giving them the finger instead.
Don't forget 14 countries, including Germany and France, have laws of their own forcing Google et al. to censor search results presented within their borders. But perhaps this is the wrong place for this debate.
I know it's a matter of taste and personal preference, but I don't want two buttons on my trackpad. When working on PC laptops, I always get slightly pissed off--usually not even pissed off enough to notice I'm pissed off, more like annoyed the way a cold sore on the inside of your lip tugs at your subconscious--that I always have to think before pressing the button to make sure it's a left- or a right-click, depending. That shit gets old real fast.
A capacitive sensor under the button that could tell the OS which side you clicked, if you set the appropriate system preference, would be a great way to make this behavior configurable, I think.
Regarding the iPhone ad, any real Mac user would immediately spot the egregious misuse of Apple Garamond, which sticks out like a dingleberry in this day and age of Myriad. A clear fake.
Dude, I don't think anyone (intelligent) is (seriously) predicting a future for Apple in Windows.
I didn't know anyone used Bluetooth who wasn't also a Mac user. Frankly, I'm not sure why you'd want to subject yourself to the misery of trying to get it to work on anything else.
Personally? I'm looking forward to syncing my address book and calendar faster--maybe continual, incremental updates, though I'm not sure why that can't already be done?--uploading snapshots, audio recordings, and videos faster, and maybe some more useful remote control features. And, of course, Internet access at something above "pokey" speed. I hear T-Mo's rolling out high-speed wireless here in New York...
Could this be related to the fact that Germany requires Google to block certain sites (Nazi memorabilia, Holocaust denial, anti-Israel material) from appearing in the search results?
Human beings do nothing outside a very specific environment tailored to their needs, where temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air, gravity, radiation, &c., all lie within specific bounds. How is this different from a virus needing an environment that includes cellular structures in order to replicate?
Me, I subscribe to structuralism.
With this most recent string of posts, you've gone from mere annoyance to outright pain in the ass on account of lunacy. If you actually lived in media-saturated New York, you'd not only be familiar with these conspiracy theories, you'd also be wise to the debunkings, the rebuttals of the debunkings, and the rebuttals to those rebuttals. In short, everyone here is sick and tired of flyover-state morons in the mold of the Michigan Militia coming up and spreading stupidities, like yours, that are better explained with a little bit of reasonable thought and a little more of knowing the actors involved personally. You little twerp. You fucking shitbag. I'm glad to see you haven't been back in a few days. Hopefully your account's locked out permanently so the rest of us no longer have to put up with your inane first posts.
Yeah. Because clearly, only a troll would submit a tag like "whocares."
I dunno, but I can't read them either. Maybe we got downmodded too often.
"I thinks that they mean Micron... but they are morons for not using the right abbriviation."
No, I think Slashdot is "morons" for not letting you paste in the right abbreviation (which looks like, but isn't, "um"). Why, oh why, is Slashcode stuck in the 1990s?
Well, personally, I think you're lame. :-P
Honestly, MySpace is no worse than Friendster or the Facebook would be if those sites allowed you the range and freedom of expression MySpace does with HTML tags and embedded objects. Yes, you can take that freedom and use it to shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also build profiles of astonishing beauty and elegance. I think it's pretty cool--I just wish more sites let the user hack around with them like that.
If they do, somehow, begin to make better products than OSS, then maybe--just maybe--they deserve to win?
Just a thought.
Yep. Microsoft, once again, follows in Apple's footsteps. No surprise here.
Which is why "identity theft" and "theft of services" are invalid concepts, right? Think again, moron.